I strongly recognize both that I share the "community-centric view" and that I disagree with the "maintainer view"https://medium.com/@mikeal/maintainer-vs-community-97edc28387ad …
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There is a lot of dysfunction to unpack in the maintainer view. And for-profit companies should always be a third actor in the discourse.
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Basically unless the discourse becomes more nuanced, I don't expect much to happen here.
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There are some projects that operate largely using the community POV (Rust, Ember are two I'm involved in). That's important, I think.
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Sure. I'm not making any value judgments. In this dichotomy, I prefer the community view. But doesn't necessarily address sustainability.
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Interesting. I agree with the for-profit corporation point. I find the maintainer view to be fundamentally incompatible with sustainability.
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Me too, the maintainer view is like a worst case scenario of "sunk cost fallacy." As adoption increases the situation can only get worse.
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to be honest, I mostly see my job as a maintainer as "chaos management" - keep the exponentially growing community productive.
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the more flexibility you have to spend on pure community work the more compelled you are to grease the squeaky wheels nobody else can.
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